High School Football America and it’s publisher Jeff Fisher has released what is believe to be the first look at any type of national ranking for the 2024 high school football season on Tuesday afternoon with the High School Football America Preseason Top 1000.
The state-by-state look of the teams in the rankings are in no particular order ahead of the unveling of the Preseason HSFA 300 that is created using High School Football America’s proprietary algorithm that has been used for HSFA’s national rankings since the 2013 season.
As such, Florida is leading the way with 129 teams among the Top 1000 with many of these teams likely to be featured in the Top 300 preseason rankings.
Eight of the nine defending state champions made the cut while seven of the nine state runner-ups also made the cut for the Top 1000. In addition to those teams, 13 other teams that were state semifinalist last year are also a part of the Top 1000 teams in the rankings.
Here at the teams to make the cut in the Top 1000:
American Heritage (Plantation) – CLASS 2M STATE SEMIFINALIST
Apopka
Armwood (Seffner)
Atlantic (Delray Beach)
Auburndale
Bartram Trail (St. Johns)
Belen Jesuit (Miami)
Benjamin (Palm Beach Gardens)
Berkeley Prep (Tampa) – DEFENDING CLASS 2M STATE CHAMPION
Bishop Verot (Fort Myers)
Blanche Ely (Pompano Beach)
Boca Raton
Bolles (Jacksonville) – CLASS 2M STATE SEMIFINALIST
Booker (Sarasota) – CLASS 2S STATE SEMIFINALIST
Buchholz (Gainesville) – CLASS 4S STATE SEMIFINALIST
Calvary Christian (Clearwater)
Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale)
Cardinal Mooney (Sarasota) – DEFENDING CLASS 1S STATE CHAMPION
Cardinal Newman (West Palm Beach)
Carrollwood Day (Tampa)
Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood) – DEFENDING CLASS 1M STATE CHAMPION
Chiles (Tallahassee)
Choctawhatchee (Fort Walton Beach)
Clearwater
Clearwater Central Catholic – CLASS 1M STATE RUNNER-UP
Cocoa – DEFENDING CLASS 2S STATE CHAMPION
Coconut Creek
Columbia (Lake City)
Columbus (Miami) – DEFENDING CLASS 4M STATE CHAMPION
Creekside (St. Johns)
DeLand – CLASS 4S STATE SEMIFINALIST
Dillard (Fort Lauderdale)
Doral Academy
Dr. Phillips (Orlando)
Dunbar (Fort Myers) – CLASS 3S STATE SEMIFINALIST
Durant (Plant City)
East Bay (Gibsonton)
Edgewater (Orlando)
Ed White (Jacksonville)
Escambia (Pensacola)
Eau Gallie (Melbourne)
Fletcher (Neptune Beach)
Florida High (Tallahassee)
Gaither (Tampa) – CLASS 3M STATE SEMIFINALIST
Golden Gate (Naples)
Gulliver Prep (Pinecrest)
Heritage (Palm Bay)
Hillsborough (Tampa)
Homestead – CLASS 3M STATE RUNNER-UP
IMG Academy National (Bradenton)
Jesuit (Tampa)
Jones (Orlando) – CLASS 3M STATE SEMIFINALIST
Lake Gibson (Lakeland)
Lakeland – CLASS 4S STATE CHAMPION
Lake Minneola
Lake Wales
Lake Mary
Lakewood (St. Petersburg)
Largo
Leesburg
Lincoln (Tallahassee)
Madison County (Madison) – CLASS 1R STATE RUNNER-UP
Mainland (Daytona Beach) – DEFENDING CLASS 3S STATE CHAMPION
Manatee (Bradenton)
Mandarin (Jacksonville) – CLASS 4M STATE RUNNER-UP
Merritt Island
Miami Central
Miami Edison
Miami Killian
Miami Norland – CLASS 2M STATE RUNNER-UP
Miami Northwestern
Miami Palmetto
Miami Southridge
Mitchell (New Port Richey)
Miramar
Monarch (Coconut Creek) – CLASS 4M STATE SEMIFINALIST
Monsignor Pace (Miami)
Mosley (Lynn Haven)
Naples
Navarre
Nease (Ponte Vedra)
Niceville
North Miami Beach
Osceola (Kissimmee)
Oviedo
Pahokee
Palm Beach Central (Wellington)
Palm Beach Gardens
Palmetto
Pensacola Catholic – CLASS 2S STATE SEMIFINALIST
Plant (Tampa) – CLASS 4M STATE SEMIFINALIST
Plantation
Plant City
Pine Forest (Pensacola)
Pinellas Park (Largo)
Ponte Vedra
Raines (Jacksonville)
Riverside (Jacksonville)
Riverview (Sarasota)
Rockledge
Sebring
Seminole (Sanford)
South Dade (Homestead)
South Sumter
South Walton (Santa Rosa Beach)
Spruce Creek (Port Orange)
St. Augustine – CLASS 3S STATE RUNNER-UP
St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) – DEFENDING CLASS 3M STATE CHAMPION
Stranahan (Fort Lauderdale)
Sumner (Riverview)
Tampa Bay Tech
Treasure Coast (Port St. Lucie)
Trinity Christian Academy (Jacksonville) – CLASS 1M STATE SEMIFINALIST
University (Orange City)
Vanguard (Ocala) – CLASS 3S STATE SEMIFINALIST
Venice – CLASS 4S STATE RUNNER-UP
Vero Beach
Viera
Wakulla (Crawfordville)
Wekiva (Apopka)
West Boca Raton
West Broward (Pembroke Pines)
West Orange (Winter Garden)
Western (Davie)
Wharton (Tampa)
Winter Park
Wiregrass Ranch (Wesley Chapel)
Zephyrhills
